HumanDrivenDev

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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Sometimes backs will join in the scrum in order to push their forwards over the line to score a try. It's rare but it does happen and is legal under IRB rules.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Just get a VPN like the Chinese posters use.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
My altruism was eroded by life experience. I can't quite bring myself to actively screw others over, but I'm definitely not the 'good person' I once was. Maybe true altruists are more resilient - but they're also mu
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
For a professional, that's a few days of work. Nice stealth brag (: I'm an intermediate dev in a first world country with a salary that locals would call good. That's over a months work for me.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Right, it's probably not a good idea from a pure performance perspective. But people aren't always rational.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I never advised anyone to do anything. I just described some things I've noticed.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Apologizing and taking responsibility is a sign of good character, not a sign of weakness. A lot of people disagree with you, and see it as a sign of weakness. Often those people have a lot of influence over your career.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
So much this. Altruistic, considerate people who hem and haw over how their decisions effect others grossly over estimate other human beings. Take a walk along the side of a high speed road and look at all the garbage thrown there. People d
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
What are you doing to your laptops!? Have you considered something rugged or at least semi-rugged?
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
That's the meta game, where the author of the game enjoys building the game as its own game. Not productive if you're trying to ship a game, but definitely sounds fun. It's hard to stay focused on building a shippable produ
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I think it's deeper than just 'programmers today'. It's an important life lesson for people pre-disposed towards niceness to learn. Most people aren't thoughtful or considerate or fair. They just want to maximise be
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I'll charitably assume I'm being down-voted more because of how short and dismissive my remark was than anything else. Truth be told that's all I think the likes of the NYT deserves. Even the POTUS calls it "Failing New
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Looks like old media is feeling threatened.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Our industry is too immature to have veneration for things that are old, I think.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Yes it was more a joke about the terrible quality of code produced by physics. Obviously they write stuff that works for some bizarre value of 'works'. Of course this being HN everyone took it super seriously ;)
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
This is a classic case of not understanding micro services and trying to fit a problem around a tool. This sentence needs to be repeated for everything on the 'wrong end' of the hype curve. This is a classic case of not understa
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
What annoys me most about that show is that 3 physicists and a mechanical engineer are often shown writing working software. That's rarely the case.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Give it a rest.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
And Forth easier still.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
mithril should be the default choice for everyone. no compiler, no file format, no commandline tools, comes with its own router and request functions, and is 8kb.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I started out with vue, but found it too heavyweight and clunky. A viewmodel framework shouldn't need its own god damn compiler or file format. I ended up switching to mithril.js, which is much smaller than vue and comes with its own r
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
The EU are masters at this. See: the Lisbon treaty.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Asos, Zalando, Flixbus, Klarna, Xing, Spotify, Auto1, Takeaway.com I'm not from Europe or America and the only one I've heard of is 'spotify'. Are you really denying that the EU is well behind the US in terms of softwa
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I've never liked that witticism. For one thing it breaks down really quickly - ie by that logic Welsh is a dialect of English, and Walloon French is a dialect of Flemish. It's also fairly irrelevant to me what a government thinks
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
Modern OCaml multithreading is still a couple years away It's been a couple of years away for the last 10 years.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
As a language, it's great. As a real world environment/eco-system to get stuff soon? I've been waiting for it to get there for years, and it still hasn't. I check in every 12 months or so, am reminded how nice the langua
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
As does the frequent mistake of putting weight on the rear pedal. I don't follow. What do you mean here?
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
No need to start punching. Just confront them on their behaviour. 90% of the time they'll back down if you call them out. They're just school-bullies grown up.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I wrote that managers are mostly useless The ones that aren't are worth their weight in gold, though.
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by HumanDrivenDev 8y ago
I'm in a dead end job right now but I'm reluctant to leave because my office is huge. big bookshelf, multiple chairs, nice view. I'm going to need a big pay increase to go back to an open office, and no one is ponying up.

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